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The current Web cache infrastructure, though it has a number of performance benefits, does not address many of the publishers’ requirements. We argue that web caches should be enhanced to address publishers’ needs. For example, caches will need to log client accesses, run scripts to dynamically produce content, and give publishers QoS guarantees. In this paper, we propose Gemini, a publishercen...

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Discussions among the Directors of The Company of Biologists have focused in recent years on the ‘pain to publish’ experienced by authors – and from these discussions grew the idea of a journal that could lessen that pain. So last year, the Company conducted a survey of authors in the communities associated with its three established journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science and The Journa...

When I took on the role of Editor-inChief of this open-access journal, I began, for the first time, to think about scholarly communication beyond submitting my papers and getting them published. This thinking led to previous Perspectives [1–3], all of which shared an underlying theme— there are many opportunities to achieve better dissemination and comprehension of our science, and as producers...

Publishers now expect a variety of electronic files from the typesetter, both for publishing, and for archiving. And yet, the publishing industry, by and large, still follows the traditional “manuscript/edit/typeset/proofread/print” approach. The process is still essentially paper-based. The typesetting is also geared primarily towards paper output. I suggest that we are in need of radical chan...

On behalf of fellow Editors, members of the Editorial Board and the staff of British Journal ofCancer, I welcome our readers to this first issue of the journal under our new publishers. After many years of working closely and productively with the previous publishers, Stockton Press, the owners of the journal, the Cancer Research Campaign, decided to contract future publication of the journal t...

Believers in open access (OA) argue that the subscription-based journal model is like a clot blocking the free-flow of scientific research to vital research organs and the public, cutting off the supply of ideas and innovations. But believers in traditional journals argue that, with a single cut, there is a real risk that scientific research will leak in an uncontrolled fashion that would be im...